We had an interesting discussion on one of the internal mailing lists this week. Someone asked what the general opinion was about disabling Tech Support. Of course some said disabling should not be a problem, but many also disagreed. The reason for this is simple: Support.
When Tech Support is disabled it removes the option to [...]
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Disable Tech Support on ESXi?
Cisco and Granite Ventures invest in Hytrust
I just received the following announcement and thought it would be interesting for you as well:
HyTrust, Inc., the leader in policy management and access control for virtual infrastructure, announced today that it has secured $10.5 million in Series B financing. New investors Granite Ventures and Cisco Systems participated in the round of financing, as did [...]
HyTrust Appliance 1.5
HyTrust just published info on their latest and greatest version of their appliance which will be released on the 24th of August and will carry version number 1.5. Hytrust sits between your virtual environment and the admin and enforces granular authorization of all virtual infrastructure management operations, according [...]
HyTrust Appliance, the community release
I wrote about HyTrust a month ago. Today HyTrust announced a community version. In short, for up to three host you can use a fully featured version of the Hytrust Appliance for free…
HyTrust Appliance, Community Edition is now available for download now as a pre-built, VMware-compatible virtual appliance to members of HyTrust Community. To join [...]
Security updates for ESX 3.x
Just a quick note that I wanted to get out… A security patch has been released. Please look at the following KB article and download, test and implement the patch.
VMware ESX 3.5, Patch ESX350-200904201-SG: Updates VMX RPM
Issues fixed in this patch (and their relevant symptoms, if applicable) include:
A critical vulnerability in the virtual machine display [...]





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